"I sound like a little spoiled beach girl," says Kylie Cusick, who has never lived far from the ocean. The 24-year-old grew up on the Coronado peninsula outside San Diego, then attended University of California, Santa Barbara, and started modeling professionally after a "foot in the door" TV job quickly grew stale. "I was basically just answering phones and faxing papers and shit," she recalls with a laugh. Fast-forward two years: Cusick, who recently shot a Levi's campaign, is living in LA, and at the forefront of the city's alternative, "almost bohemian" urban style. It's all on display via her Instagram. "I feel so much sexier when I'm kind of dressed like a tomboy," Cusick says. "I'd rather be in some ratty clothes than lingerie."